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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1031)	12/15/2003 3:48:44 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3079

Bush doesn't have many more Kodak moments to pull out of a hat for his campaign. They've got a bunch - they are very creative & have extreme control over the media through the bully pulpit and GOP media corps. As one small example, every stage in the SH trial will be an occasion for propaganda. Every statement of disgusting real or invented horror, real and invented plans, etc. I heard an author flogging a new book on Iraq just state unequivocally that the Saddham regime "kept meticulous, detailed records, just like the Nazis in Germany". IMO, that's (a)total bullsht, and (b)an awfully convenient excuse for inventing myriad public relations / propaganda for whatever purpose the administration thinks it needs, to shore up bad previous decisions, to keep Rumsfeld and others out of jail for previous and current transgressions. They've learned their lesson on the Niger yellowcake, and will have wonderful documents to "prove" how WMDs were buried for future use, mass graves of million or so, how the invasion was just the thing a brave president needed to do to save all mankind. These will emerge in the trial, oh, around October or so... Not to mention OBL and a thousand other manufactured events. As a departing WH official said, this administration subordinates everything* to politics. He could have added, "including the lives of Americans".

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1031)	12/15/2003 4:00:54 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3079

Whoa! You're makin' me dizzy! Saddam Hussein- a paper tiger in all respects. Tell that to the 400k Iraqis he killed, not to mention the Iranians and Kuwaitis. He's secretly planning the attacks on Americans from his cave in the boondocks with what, a tin can and string? Documents in his briefcase, which was found with him, have led to several arrests of insurgency leaders and bomb-makers, and indicate he was, in fact, still involved in the insurgency. You're spin notwithstanding. We now have statements from the man himself that there are no WMDs in Iraq. Well, that settles it then. Saddam says so - it MUST be true. We'll have to see the polls in a few weeks, but I'll bet it turns out like the Thanksgiving event, a lot of euphoria and later a sort of disgust. Yeah, "sort of disgust[ing]" how his Gallup approval rating rose by five points afterward, eh? Later, Dizzie.